Dan Gristwood Spent 9 Years Behind Bars
Dan Gristwood, a man who won a $7.5 million legal judgement for a wrongful conviction that put him behind bars for nine years, has died just four months after finally receiving the money that was meant to compensate him for his ruined life — a life that was destroyed by a false confession coerced by police in 1996.
Gristwood, who lived in Oswego County, New York, and died of lung cancer Saturday afternoon at a hospital in Syracuse, was just 48 years old. He had received his payout in September, after first winning a lawsuit against the state in May of 2013, only to have the state appeal what was then a $5.5 million award.
The wrongly convicted man, who was imprisoned from 1996 to 2005 after being found guilty of trying to kill his wife by smashing her head with a hammer as she slept, waited for 16 months for the appeal to be denied. By the time that happened, accrued interest raised his award to $7.5 million
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